Word: envoys
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Brown in Amman last week. Brown, who had been pinned down for seven days in the beleaguered American embassy as civil war raged outside, clambered aboard a Jordanian armored personnel carrier and was whisked to Al-Hummar Palace on the fringe of the city. There, King Hussein accepted the envoy's credentials and discussed emergency U.S. assistance for Jordan. The fact that the King was on hand and receiving ambassadors indicated how the struggle was going. During ten days of battle, between the Jordanian army and the guerrillas of the Palestine liberation movement, the army seized several fedayeen strongholds...
Died. George V. Allen, 66, director general of the Foreign Service Institute and twice an Assistant Secretary of State; of a heart attack; in Bahama, N.C. A diplomat who rose to the rank of Career Ambassador, Allen served as envoy to Yugoslavia, India, Nepal, Iran and Greece, before becoming director of the U.S. Information Agency (1957-60). After retiring, he was appointed president of the Tobacco Institute, a position he held until being recalled to head the Foreign Service Institute in 1966. Often mistaken for George E. Allen, jolly friend and collector of Presidents (Roosevelt, Eisenhower), Ambassador Allen was once...
Marxist Priests. For months, Rome has heard similar reports. After surveying Brazil's 245 bishops, a special Vatican envoy found that only 15 firmly support the military regime, while 40 have joined Archbishop Câmara in publicly opposing the government; most of the other 190 lean toward the left. Some bishops are heeding the growing number of rebel priests who insist that Catholicism can transform society-and save its soul-only by embracing revolution, even a Marxist variety. "We expected revolutionary movement, but never anticipated that it would build up to such intensity at the very heart...